The Village That Wouldn’t Give Up: How PRADAN Turned Self-Help Groups Into a National Model
In 1998, Teliya, a remote village in Jharkhand’s Gumla district, had almost nothing going for it: severe food insecurity, high rates of malnutrition, and barely any cash circulating in the local economy. Twenty-five years later, the same village has year-round crop planning, renovated roads, working irrigation, and a sanitation system with toilets for its 77…